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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

The Power Of Snail-Mail

well, one of the sweeter emails i've ever gotten was from an IIF who made a very simple request i sort of um, well, was a bit neglectful in mentioning.

my bad! hope you'll consider helping, as per her request below!

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A small town in Southwest Missouri by the name of Nevada, MO is celebrating its 150th birthday...There's about 12,000 folks that live in and just outside its city limits now, quite a bit more in the county-wide radius, and then there's folks like me who haven't lived there in years but still consider it "home"

[It would rock if any of you] would be willing to send a postcard depicting the city of your own residence and mail it to the Nevada Missouri Chamber of Commerce and wish the town and its residents "Happy 150th Birthday, Nevada!"!

...I'm envisioning a whole bunch of postcards with pictures of San Fran and Los Angeles and New York City and on and on flooding the mailbox of the Nevada, MO Chamber of Commerce and just imagining the looks of puzzlement and befuddlement on everyone in the office trying to figure out why and how this has happened.

Because if bunches and bunches of "Happy 150th Birthday, Nevada!" postcard greetings are received, a permanent exhibit in the local Bushwacker Historical Museum can be made to preserve the heartfelt sentiments for posterity's sake.

Hi Kristy and fellow IIF's,I want to say thanks for posting this request and for everybody's willingness to participate. I've been accused of late of being a royal first class dork but in the grand scheme of things, I don't really care. This project I willingly undertook is all about the power of suggestion; to ask for assistance from complete strangers and see what comes of the effort.So far, there's been a lovely response, but I wish to amend things just a bit further, if I may? Forward this request to your friends and families in other cities, if you will, and ask them to participate as well. It'll become a time capsule, of sorts; a representation of the power of suggestion and generosity that Americans can express so well when linked to a common cause or purpose.I'm much obliged.